Calculating implement.



E. J. BRANDT. CALCULATING IMPLEMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24, 1906.

Patented Nov. 23

UNITED 'sTATpsi gENT oFFioE. i

nnvtnann J. BRANDT, or wn'rnarowiv. WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR '10 BRANDT cnsrnnn COMPANY, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION or. ILLINOIS.

CALCULATING IMPLEMENT.

Specification o t Letters Patent. Patented Nov, 23, 1909,

Application filed March 24, 1906. Serial No. 307,787.

To all whom 'itmoy concern: 7 Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BRANDT, a citizen of the United States, and resident of \Vatert'owm'in the county of Jelferson and State of isconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calculating Implements; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Referring to my previous applications Serial No. 259,130, filed May 6, 1905, renewed January 29, 1908, SerialNo. 3,268, and Serial No. 307,788,.filed March 24, 1906, my invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts herein shown, described and claimed asfl consti- 'tuting a simple, economical, and durable portable implement for the convenience of a ,seller by which to calculate money value of sales and indicate the same to a cashier, who may or may not, employ the implement in conjunction with a suitable machine, such as is disclosed in the aforesaid applications,

to make a record, registration or both of What is'from time to time indicated by said implement.

My invention also consists in making the implement with receptacles, in order that it may also serve as a sales-ticket holder and cash-carrier.

Figure 1,0f' the drawings'represents a horizontal section'viewof an implement in accordance withmy invention organized for all of the several'purposes above stated, Fig.

2, a front elevation of the same as it would appear suspended from a traveler, an d Fig.

3, a transversesection view of said imple- 'ment.

Referring'by letter to the drawings, A in- 40- dicates a tablet having a face thereof provided with a series of longitudinal grooves in which, slides B have their play and the tabletis shown as provided with a back compartment b in which to place sales-tickets.

It is also preferable to attach a receptacle. 0

to the back of the tablet to therewith form a pocket for cash, one end of said receptacle being preferably extended beyond an edge of said tablet and provided with ears 0 with which to attach a hanger;

-- Each slide B isprovidediwitha fingernotch d to facilitate its adjustment, and the 1 several slides, are transversely ke'rfed' at reg- 1 ular intervals longitudinally thereof to proin which they are adjustable.

vide indentations for the/engagement of catch-fingers e of a spring-plate D riveted or otherwlse fastened tothe tablet, and an arm of this spring-plate opposes ajthumbextension 9 of a latchplate E in pivotal connection with said tablet and normally en'- gaged with kerfs of all the slides, it requiring a tilt ofthe latch-plate, against resistance. of said arm of the spring-plate, in order that any one or all of said slides may be adjusted out of normal position or back to the same. The catch-fingers e of the sprlng-plate are such that each of them engages a kerf 111 a corresponding sllde to hold -said slide in any position of adjustment when the latch-plate is tilted out of kerfs of all the several slides, there being ready yield of said catch-fingers to adjustment of the respective slides.

1t is preferable, as herein shown to mark the spaces betweenkerfs of each slide with .the Arabic numerals in ascending order be ginning withthe cipher, and the slides themselves are in the order of units, tens, hundreds etc., reading from right to left when the tablet aforesaid is held with the notches d of said slides toward the operator. All of the slides are of the same length and when in normal position they all project an equal distance from one end of the tablet The tablet, slides and other devices in connection therewith constitute a portable implement by which to calculate and indicate money values.

An adjustment of one or more of the slides out of normal position is made to designate the total money value of a sale. For instance twelve dollars and twelve cents is designated by the adjustment of the units, tens, hundreds and thousands slides to the positions shown in Fig. 2, each adjusted slide being as many steps or spaces out of normal position as corresponds to the numeral thereon or space thereof next back of the forward cross-piece h of the springplate D bounding a slot in the same.' The adjustment of the proper slide or slides having been effected by a seller, the implement as a whole is ready for transportation to a cashier, with. or without a sales-ticket (sin- 'gle', duplicate, triplicate or otherwise) as Well-as with or without cash with which to pay the money value. indicated, no foot 4 ing on said sales-ticketjbeing necessary, be-

cause of the same having been designated i to the cashier andi'etuin, and it is to'be understood that the ticket and eash receptacles i ot said niplement are only preferable adjuncts to other parts of the same required for calculating and indicating total money value of sales IIOll'l time to time. I

The adjusted slides out the implement may be employed in engagement with a machine similar to What is set forth in the applications aforesaid to effect a corresponding 'adustment of recording slides or the operation of register-niechanisni or both.

I claim 1, A portable. calculating implement comprising. a tablet provided with longitudinal guideways, a series of slides transversely indented at' intervals longitudinally thereof and independently adptstable inthe guide- Ways beyond an end of the tablet to ind1 cate'arbitrary designations, and a plate in rigid connection with said tablet having spring-lingers each automatically engage able with indentations of a slideto hold the same extended at various adjustments thereof beyond said end oi the aforesaid tablet.

2. A portable calculating implement comprising a tabletprovided with longitudinal. guide 'ays open at one end, a series of slides trans ersely indented at :intei'vai's longtudinally thereof and independently adjustable in the guideways beyond the c pez' ends of same to indicate arbitrary designations, and a single la telvplate in pit'otal springcontrolled connection with the tablet for engagement with indentations of all. the sl ides regardless of their adjustment.

A portable calculating implement coin- .i'isportation from. the seller prising a tablet, slides in adiustable. (101N168: tion with the tablet ate arbitrary designations, a i tablet and ha g gets e I sing the slides to stop the same in var one itCijtlStHlCl'llZS thereof, and a latch-plate for said slides in pivotal connection with the aforesaid tablet and. having a tllamb-extension oppesen to an arm of the spring-plate.

iteportable calculating implement comprising a tablet provided with a sales-ticket lilitfli eoinpartnient, adjustable computing slides for designating the total money value of a saleguideivays for the slides, and means for holding each slide extended in adjusted position beyond an end. of its guideway.

5. A portable calculating implement comprising a. tablet provided with a backa'eeeptacle and adjustable computing slides,

said receptacle constituting a pocket for cash with which to pay the money "value of a sale'as designated by an adjustment of one or more of said slides out of normal. position beyond an id of the tablet.

a. portable calculating implement comprising a tablet provided with asales ticlzet eom 'iartment, adjustable computing slides for designating total money value of a sale, and a pocket for cash witl which to pay said money value of the sale designated by an adj of said slides tent of one more out of normal position beyond tablet.

In. testimony tl at 1 claim the foregoing l have hereunto set my hand at Chicago in the county of Cool: and State of Illinois in' the presence of two witnesses.

lZDlVARD J. BEAN lVitnesses SAMUEL N. P01113 Fnnnnnlcn Goonwnn an end of the 

